Wedding Photos of Sidewalk

The following “Sidewalk” images were created by documentary wedding photographers from the WPJA, who regularly submit their best candid moments, artistic portraits, details, and scene setters for review by our WPJA competition judges.

WEDDINGS + ELOPEMENTS + ARTISTIC PORTRAITS & DETAILS + ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS

Some of the “Sidewalk” marriage photography samples below may have come from the getting ready events, the actual wedding ceremony, the reception after-party, an engagement session with the couple, or possibly be artistic portraits or detail shots.

FINE ART WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY: Our Artistic Guild award winners take a more creative approach to wedding day Portraits and use their innovative skills to capture the Details of each couple’s special day. The Artistic Guild’s Scene Setters are some of the most notable and breathtaking from within the artistic WPJA contest categories. Playing with light and shadow, special effects, and post-production editing, these images embrace the artistic component of wedding photography.

PRE-WEDDING ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY: The story of every couple starts long before the wedding day, and the engagement marks one of the most important milestones in their story. Engaged couples often want to celebrate the occasion and announce their upcoming wedding with a photoshoot. Pre-wedding portraits of an engaged couple can be just as moving and compelling as the images taken on the wedding day. Engagement portraits can win a Diamond Award, an exclusive WPJA award whose winner is selected from the best engagement photography in the world.

Washington Mews lifestyle couples portrait session in New York City created as they stand in the doorway of a home formerly used as a Carriage House in Greenwich Village

An impressive black and white Hauts-de-France wedding photography picture created as The veil of the bride is caressed by the wind on the sidewalk

Hauts-de-France bw veil of the bride French bride picture black and white France caressed

A sweet and serene New York City engagement session for a NY couple walking on the sidewalk under trees

New York City engagement walking streets under trees city sidewalk

A first rate wedding detail picture from a West Yorkshire marriage event at Thwaite Mills wedding venue showing the UK bride and her friends shoes and feet as they walk in the rain

feet uk bride sidewalk raining Patrick Mateer United Kingdom walk

World's most innovative and best Adana wedding day bride portrait after the reception in warm sunlight against a wall with flying birds

Adana wedding bride portrait Adana Turkey Warm sunlight sidewalk flying birds

World's most innovative and best Naantali wedding day portrait in black and white taken just before the wedding ceremony

bw walking sidewalk Naantali holding hands Risto Kuitunen laughing

World's top and most original Newark, Nottingham wedding portrait photography of the Bride and Groom sitting outside colorful shop front

Newark UK city streets Newark photography Newark Bride and Groom Nottingham wedding portrait sitting

Outdoor Helen, GA engagement photography portrait with a Couple walking on sidewalk together during the pandemic

GA sidewalk engagement photography portrait Pandemic Outdoor Helen

A creative Paris wedding detail picture showing The brides dress recreates the French flag with a red and blue vintage car behind her

Paris wedding picture streets sidewalk French flag auto Pierrick Roland urban

An original San Francisco wedding art image in Northern California detailing the flower girls are ready with their baskets filled with flower petals

flower girls San Francisco wedding image flower petals San Francisco baskets sidewalk

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in San Francisco capturing a couple who are capable of only Seeing only each other in their eyes

couple sidewalk building pre wedding portrait session San Francisco San Francisco bride to be

Bulgaria couple posing for wedding images of the bride and groom kissing on the street sidewalk

street Bulgaria wedding image kissing sidewalk Tatyana Chohadjieva bride and groom posing

Netherlands Reception artistic wedding portrait from the Blue hour in Rotterdam

A wedding portrait taken during the blue hour showcasing the backlit couple silhouetted against the backdrop of the water

blue hour off camera flash Rotterdam wedding portrait couple silhouetted Netherlands water

Engagement Picture Session at Château de Méridon, France - Visit of the venue 7 month before the wedding. We improvised a quick photoshoot.

Engagement Picture Session during a Visit of the venue 7 month before the wedding

France wedding photography France pre wedding France France brides sidewalk Château de Méridon

engagement portrait session of a happy couple walking arm in arm with their two dogs down a snowy city sidewalk

sidewalk dogs Danielle Gardner snow New York Albany engagement images

Engagement Photographer for Key West, FL - Portrait contains: street lamp, couple, sidewalk, night

couple FL couple shoot street lamp Key West sidewalk FL engagement photographer

Standard poodle jumps up into arms of couple at Steven's Institute of Technology during their Hoboken NJ engagement photo session

New Jersey NJ Hoboken hoboken engagement photographer cityscape dogs pets

Girl riding piggyback on guys back as they walk up the street

Seattle engagement photo walking concrete piggy back street photography urban environment Washington

Peru Lima Lovers pose for engagement pre wedding shoot

grass Lima pre wedding portrait Lima engagement photo over top lying down Peru

Wedding guests await the sudden rain and wind to stop on the sidewalk

San Miguel de Allende rainy day weddings sidewalk Mexico San Miguel de Allende wet weddings rain Rosewood San Miguel de Allende

A couple is reflected in a car mirror as they hold hands on the sidewalk in this engagement photo by an Alicante, Valencia photographer.

reflected car mirror sidewalk hold hands Valencia Alicante

California couple walking cobblestone sidewalk in sunshine before their wedding

A young couple walking cobblestone sidewalk in sunshine before their wedding

walking sidewalk California couple cobblestone California engagement photography sunshine

The Portsmouth couple captured embracing near the water's edge with the skyline

The couple's radiant smiles were perfectly captured in the engagement photo, embracing near the water's edge with the skyline behind them and a spray painted 'smile' on the sidewalk

New Hampshire skyline waters edge spray paint sidewalk Portsmouth Portsmouth engagement photographer

image of a London bride walking on wet streets with help from bridesmaids keeping her dress clean and dry

Protecting the Bride: A London Wedding Story

Protecting Bride street bride Wedding Story rain London marriage London photographer

Creative silhouette reflected pre-wedding engagement shoot | Seattle portraits

In this creative silhouette reflected pre-wedding engagement shoot, the couple is captured against a street scene with a sidewalk pedestrian walking past, adding a dynamic and urban element to the image

street scene sidewalk urban element pedestrian walking by Seattle Seattle engagement session

a Montreal couple holding hands and lying on colourful sidewalk

Montreal holding hands Montreal couple lying sidewalk

The bride and groom walk along the sidewalk in afternoon sunlight

San Miguel de Allende bride and groom sunlight sidewalk Mexico

men playing guitars while walking down the sidewalk

San Miguel sidewalk musicians playing guitars men guitarists Mexico

Federal District destination wedding photography | Brasil urban engagement photographers

Federal District Brasil urban engagement photo with a couple running in the streets

Brazil pre wedding portrait couple Federal District Brazil engagement images Gustavo Lucena sidewalk Brazil

bride black and white umbrellas sidewalk groom raining

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